Michael Moore’s latest film

| October 12, 2009

Michael Moore has a new film. I love Michael, particularly his early films and his hilarious television show TV Nation. Watch this clip and you’ll see what I saw in the 1990s. He’s not a guy who was against George Bush and for the good old days of Bill Clinton. I’m not saying that he [...]

And so it begins

| October 11, 2009

Yesterday, I posted my first of many reactions to the Nobel committee’s awkward decision to award a Nobel Peace Prize to a man who has not DONE anything yet. I noted that even people on the left were stunned. Last night, Obama gave a speech at the Human Rights Campaign dinner. Today, Andrew Sullivan writes: [...]

Idealism and Obama’s Peace Prize

| October 10, 2009

My good friend Jim Marchand used to say that he was waiting for the Nobel committee to call and award him his long-delayed Prize. They never did. After yesterday’s surprise, I hope he realizes what an idealistic body that committee is. Even my friends and fellow bloggers at the Huffington Post quail at the choice [...]

“I don’t think it’s a partisan thing”

| October 9, 2009

President Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. “I don’t think it’s a partisan thing,” presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs said. Right.

Fiona Apple

| October 6, 2009

Okay, she might in fact be crazy, (see this clip for her worst moment in public and this clip for her discussion about keeping up her God attenae), but she’s also my favorite lyricist working today. These three clips were on MTV.com for her third album, Extraordinary Machine. Phenomenal lyrics, and I don’t usually listen [...]